“ETHEREAL POWERED POINT OF CONNECTION” MARINA FERNANDEZ
“A transcendental experience where abstract geometrical light plays chess, with organic forms derived from nature to reveal the duality of how she views the world”
by William Hanhausen
Single-minded visionary artist Marina Fernandez pursues her own forms of geometrical abstraction with a compiling resurgence in her work that only follows her exclusive trend.
In her work, consciousness is paramount. Her paintings transcend the physical to become spiritual statements, drawing the viewers in a distinct visual and emotional pull. Nothing stating more than the elegant traceries that exist in her linear turbulent compositions, in which expression instill brushstrokes to create a sense of constancy of an elemental motion-like. Yet, despite this linear tempestuousness’, Marina’s canvases exude essence of peace, and therein lies the timeless and ethereal power of her work.
“My intention is for the viewer to participate in a dance, exploring multiple planes and angles, guided by their own intuition. It becomes like a dance between the painting and the viewer, who is invited to enter and leave the canvas through the many angles and their boundaries,” says Fernandez.
Marina understands and incorporates many of the basic concerns of modernism into her work. Examples of grids, the impact of scale, the flattening of the pictorial space and color formed space are evident in all her works. In addition to include familiar modernist conventions, she incorporates a somewhat unique to her native Argentina’s ethos and European background. Coupled, with a blended of Asian philosophies into a geometrical iconography, that can be traced to her own personal history.
Her ability to translate what she knows and trusts onto a multidimensional surface that makes her work visually exciting and, at times, challenging to the viewer, is something she feels deep inside. “I was born and raised in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. I pursued a degree in Industrial Engineering and began my career in that area... Living in Asia; Indonesia, Singapore and China for over fourteen years, opened my mind to new experiences and creative expressions.”
Marina Fernandez’s profound and evocative compositions paradoxically captures the spirit of both worlds. Her distilled formal vocabulary, signature shades and lines belie a tremendous sense of velocity and deep emotional resonance.
Over the past years she has been working on “Boundaries”, a series Inspired by Contemporary Cartographers who use maps to represent a physical, mental, or emotional territory. “As a methodical engineer I am witnessing geometry in everything, and simultaneously, as another part of me, admiring irregularity and imperfection. Like my life and my maps, these boundaries are constantly changing. They flow and shift on different surfaces and dimensions,” she states.
The transparencies that she places, are explorations into other forms that allow her to bridge two perspectives to interpret her surroundings’. Marina Fernandez work is a cosmic occasion, for all of us, to learn and explore humankind.
Her recent works are compositions of new mediums and materials with interweaved ambiguity. Where she brings unexpected colored textured surprises to the scene. Presenting, the vibrancy of cultures that she has been in contact with, through an itinerant life.
Guiding us fluently with her serious narrative, through a pathway to re-consider our contemporary society.
It is unquestionable that, these are some of the strongest abstract geometrical art works coming out of any Texan studio today. Marina Fernandez’s paintings will be, to those who take and consider to look, a pleasing contribution to our intellect. To better understand the complex world in which she believes and the level of exceptional talent she has.
“The measure of the “success” of an artwork is the degree to which the viewer falls in tune with, and shares the same emotional involvement of the artist. ‘” Debra Pesci.
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Fotos: Courtesy of Marina Fernandez